R. David Murray added the comment:

I'd prefer to fix it, since having the action='append' and nargs='*' behaviors 
be different looks like a bug.  However, fixing it to match 'append' (default 
really is None) would be likely to break working code, so we certainly couldn't 
backport that, and I'd be really reluctant to fix it that way in 3.4, either.  
(3) is thus preferable to (2), even though it leaves us with an inconsistency.  
It would still be a judgment call on whether or not to backport it.  It seems 
like it would be reasonably safe, but such changes always worry me :)

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